Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre

by Joanne Tompkins

Overview

This study investigates contestations over spatiality in one culturally composite nation, Australia, where contemporary theatre stages competing cultural and political agendas through space and place. Covering a wide range of plays it will have wide appeal for issues of space, spatiality and territory in all forms of theatre, in all nations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403985620
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/08/2006
Series:	Studies in International Performance
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

JOANNE TOMPKINS is Associate Professor/Reader at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her books include Post-colonial Theatre (with Helen Gilbert) and Women's Intercultural Performance (with Julie Holledge). While co-editing Modern Drama, she co-edited Modern Drama: Defining the Field with Ric Knowles and W.B. Worthen. She develops virtual reality models of theatres for research and practical applications.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Spatial Coordinates Mapping Australian Space in Theatre Monuments Contamination The Borders of Identity Conclusion: Haunted Pasts and Methektic Futures Works Cited Index